Sr. Android Engineer

Navan is looking for a Senior Android Engineer who is passionate about pushing mobile technologies to their limits. In this role, you will collaborate with a team of talented engineers to design, build, and enhance the next generation of our mobile applications in the travel management space. You will own critical features—from high-performance booking flows to real-time expense management—ensuring a seamless, world-class experience for millions of global users. What You’ll Do: Design, Build, and Evolve: Architect and develop end-to-end features using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose . You will build responsive interfaces while evolving the robust architecture that powers them. Build Enterprise-Grade Workflows: Create intuitive UIs and powerful logic for complex domains such as dynamic travel policies, approval chains, and real-time synchronization. Optimize Performance: Analyze and optimize UI performance, memory efficiency, and background processing to ensure a high-quality user experience. Own Features End-to-End: Take technical ownership of a problem domain, facilitating the design, development, and launch of key features and microservices. Champion Best Practices: Contribute to a culture of technical excellence by writing high-quality, well-tested code and advocating for modern testing and monitoring standards. Collaborate Across Teams: Work cross-functionally with Product and Design to deliver complex, cross-domain features in a collaborative environment. What We’re Looking For: 4-6 years of experience developing high-quality Android applications in a fast-paced environment. Deep Proficiency in Kotlin as the primary development language, including experience with Coroutines and Flow . Modern Android Stack: Hands-on experience with Jetpack Compose , Hilt/Dagger , Retrofit, Espresso . Architectural Knowledge: Strong understanding of MVVM/MVI patterns and Clean Architecture principles. Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and design. Platform Fundamentals: Deep knowledge of the Android SDK, threading, offline storage, caching optimization, localisation and accessibility. Engineering Rigor: Proven ability to ship production-quality code equipped with robust testing (Unit, Integration) and documentation. Efficiency: Ability to leverage AI development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate development while maintaining high code quality. Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers. Human oversight: Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our recruiters and hiring managers review all outputs and make the final hiring decision regarding every application. Your rights: If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email here . Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated. Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights.